HANOI, April 23 — Vietnam eased social distancing measures today, with experts pointing to a decisive response involving mass quarantines and expansive contact tracing for the apparent success in containing the coronavirus. Despite a long and porous border with China, the South-east Asian nation...
A farmer rides a bycycle past a poster warning about the Covid-19 outbreak in Hanoi, Vietnam April 22, 2020. — Reuters pic
Although the numbers tested for Covid-19 are relatively low and experts caution the authoritarian government's health ministry is the sole source for the figures, they also say there is little reason to distrust them. “They're really doing their part,” he said earlier this week, adding he believed around 80,000 people were placed under quarantine.There are now almost no international flights arriving in Vietnam and the country has been under partial lockdown since the beginning of April.
In contrast, Communist Vietnam has put tens of thousands under state quarantine, including overseas citizens returning home, at military-style camps across the country. In Cambodia, the case number has remained unchanged at 122 for over a week, while cases in Laos have stayed at 19.
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